The last section of the railway from Goulburn to Cooma was opened for traffic to-day, and the inhabitants of the Monaro turned out in thousands to take patt in the demonstration in honour of the event. A ...
Article : 614 wordsGeneral fine weather prevailed yesterday, and reports from all the flooded districts state that the water is rapidly falling. There are no additional official records to make known, other than a prediction to the effect ...
Article : 1,328 wordsThe Creedmoor, O hello, Crown of Denmark, 2020 tons, Captain W. A. Jackson, Lorenz Hansen, left Melbourne for Newcastle yesterday. The Eurydice, 1435 tons, Captain C. A. Heinrich, has entered out at Melbourne. The steamers ...
Article : 59 wordsFrom a cable received yesterday, under date of London, May 20, It seems that the fine ship Suakim, lately referred to as overdue at San Francisco, has been posted at Lloyd's as missing. The Suakim left Newcastle last December, and a ...
Article : 110 wordsThe flood waters are slowly receding, and have fallen about 6ft up to the present. A groat deal of debris is left in the fields and in the houses of the farmers. The hulk of the steamer Alma was left resting on one arch ...
Article : 310 wordsCUSTON-HOUSE.—Entered outwards: May 80, Naiad, barque, 1039 tons, Captain Thomas Davies, for Valparaiso, via Newcastle; Robert 8. Besnard, barque, 1200 tons, Captain J. M. C. Andrews, for Manila; Sharpshooter, ...
Article : 1,173 wordsThe Sydney Amateur Photographic Society held its first general meeting on Tuesday evening last, Mr. H. Paterson in the chair. A good number of members— ardent lovers of the art, with enthusiasm undamped by ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting was held at the Gladstone Hall, Dulwich Hill, last evening for the purpose of formulating a scheme for the celebration of the opening of the tramway extension to that suburb. Mr. ...
Article : 173 wordsWe have just experienced one of the most disastrous floods that have ever occurred here. The river broke over its banks flooding all the low lands in the neighbourhood of the town, and spreading destruction ...
Article : 2,179 wordsA meeting of the members of this association was held in the rooms of the Australian Economic Association last evening, Mr. B. R. Wise presiding over a large attendance. The prizes given by the late Mr. A. ...
Article : 381 wordsIn the afternoon a banquet took place in tho show pavilion, where upwards of 130 of the principal residents sat down, under the presidency of the Mayor, Mr. T. W. Faulkner. There were present in addition to ...
Article : 3,230 wordsMore than two centuries and a quarter have elapsod since St. Vincent de Paul died, at the advanced age of 84, after spending a life-time in works of charity. He it was who established the Foundling Hospital of ...
Article : 668 wordsThe Quarter Sessions were opened on Monday, Judge Murray presiding. Mr. Browning was Crown Prosnculor. The barristers present were Messrs. Moriarty and Manu. The following cases were dealt ...
Article : 179 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Home, inward from London, arrived at Colombo on the morning of tho 20th Instant. The P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Carthage left Adelaide at ...
Article : 77 wordsLatest arrivals at San Francisce are the Hengist, 1553 tons Buteshire, 2920 tons; Eleanor Margaret, 2980 tons; Queen Victoria, 2564 tons; Merom, 1633 tons; Iron Duke, 1940 tons; Fairmount, 1705 tons; Ivy, 1730 tons—with coal ...
Article : 590 wordsActive operations are now being carried on in Wooroowoolten steam choose factory. Nearly 250 cows are now being milked, yielding an average of 1200lb. of milk daily, giving 13 per cent, of cream. One lb. ...
Article : 106 wordsSir,—The present flood about Windsor appears to me to be quite phenomenal, inasmuch as it has been caused almost entirely by the local rainfall. The predictions of the astronomers and other weather wiseacres that ...
Article : 424 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the Clarence River Railway and Harbour Improvement League, Mr. T. Bawden in the chair, was held to-night. There was a fair attendance of members, and the report read stated that ...
Article : 74 wordsWhen daylight broke this morning the flood waters had receded considerably. The farmers and others who had been compelled to leave their homes began to return to their saturated houses. The Windsor Bridge still ...
Article : 230 wordsThe Oceanic Steampship Company's K.M.S. Alameda. Captain Morse, moored at Cowper Wharf on arrival 3 yesterday. Owing to an order given to one of the crew stationed at the foot of the gangway some inconvenicnco was suffered ...
Article : 303 wordsNo work has been done at the Murray Bridge here for the last month. The cylinders, which should have been here first, are not here yet, and now the river is in flood. The tenders for the work were accepted on 7th ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 31 May 1889, Page 8
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